Taylor Swift has announced her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, but was her first investigation into society scandals about a real society starlet? Her fans, whose historical research abilities are an academic institution unto themselves, linked Idina to ‘The Bolter’, a song on Swift's last album, the record-breaking album, The Tortured Poets Department. Taylor Swift would not be the first: Idina inspired the multi-hyphenate, multi-husbanded mother of Fanny Logan in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, and her great-granddaughter, Frances Osborne, named Lady Sackville’s biography The Bolter.